Ice-cream disher



Nov; 16,1926. 1,607,115

M. CECIL ICE CREAM DISHER Filed March 2, 1926 Patented Nov 1, 1926 1 MORRIS 1'... CECIL, orlnnw YORK, N. Y.

ICE-CREAM meme.

Application filed March z, 1926-. Seria1 No.-91,G68. I r

This invention relates to ice cream dishers and aims to provide adevicejwhich is easy and cheap to manufacture and assemble and in which the operating parts have a sturdy construction and relation such that the device will not readily get out of order.

A further object is to provide an article of the kind referred to in which the operat ing spindle for the scraper is substantially protected against contact with the fingers'of the operator.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less broad than those stated above, together with the advantages inherent, will be in part obvious and in part specifically referred to in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations,

arrangements of parts, and applications of 1s a sleeve 19,th1s sleeve carrying a pin 20 principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claim.

In the, accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as part of this specification, and in which I have shown merely a preferred form of embodiment of invention,

Figure 1 is a plan view of an ice cream disher embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a view taken at right angles to the showing of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is an elevation of the scraper and scraper spindle detached; v Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 44 of Figure 1; and

Figure5 is a sectional view line 55 of Figure 8. g

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, 1 indicates a spoon of preferred configuration, comprising a bowl 2 and a shank or handle 3. At the outer end of the shank is a grip 4, and 5 indicates a bearing piece taken on the on the shank inwardly of the grip 4 and provided with a bearing 6 which receives the end 7 of operating spindle 8. The spindle 8 is provided with a spiral groove 9 and has a cone-bearing 10, an end bearing portion 11 and a scraper 12, the latter being formed of a resilient strip of metal curved to conform to the inner surface of the bowl 2 and having at its outer end a trunnion 13 which is pivotally held in an aperture orbe'aring at the outer side of the bowl.

In assembling, the spindle end 7 is inv serted in the bearing 6, the bearing portion I, the bowl, and the trunnion 13 i5 snapped 11 ofthe spindle is seated in the open bearing 14: formed in the proximate side wall of into its bearing aperture the far sidewall of the bowl, and the outer end ofthe'trunnion upset, suificiently to maintain the, re;

lation of parts, but leaving the trunnion free to rotate in it'sbearing. The partsare further held" against accidental disengagement by means ofv a half round shield-piece 16 which overlines the spindle, and is provided at each endfwith a pair of apertured '65 lugs .17 corresponding with similarlugs formed on shank 3 and firmly connected thereto as by means of rivets 18. Preferably the end of the shield-piece nearest the bowl is interiorly formed to cooperate with the cone-bearing portion 10 of the spindle, so that the spindle is resiliently held in ali nment. i

v gurrounding the inner end'of the spindle which extends inwardly and engages in the spiral groove 9 of the spindle. Exteriorly I of the sleeve the pin is extend-ed and enlarged as at 21, for engagement within a slot' 22provided in the shield-piece and a slot 28 formed in a lever 24c'which is pivoted as at 25 on a bracket 26 that extends out from the shank 3. A spring 27 is applied to operate the lever 23' in one direction, and the lever is providedwith a finger piece 28 that extends ifv rearwardly and laterally from the lever pivot, whereby the lever may be operated in an obvious manner, to move the sleev-e19 longitudinally of the spindle. Since the':spindie is free to rotate relatively to the sleeve, but is restrained against longitudinal movement, it will be evident that movement of the lever against the force ofits spring will bring about rotation of the spindle and con-' sequent scraping movement of the scraper 1 scribed has no exposed parts which are apt to 1n ure the fingers of ano'perator. It 1sv simple in construction, easily assembled,

- lea strong and durable. v

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, and many appar- I -.ently widely difierent embodiments of my invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all 1 matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall] pin 21 with the end of the limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claim is intendv ed to cover allrthe generic and specific tea- 7 tures of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, mightbe said to fall therebetween.

I claim:

In an ice cream disher, the combination of a handle, a bowl on the handle, a scraper for the bowl, a spirally grooved spindle for the scraper, a bearing on the handle for one end of the spindle, an open bearing in the bowl for the other end of the spindle, a shieldpiece overlying the spindle and secured to the handle, said shield-piece being provided With a slot, a sleeve on the spindle, a pin carried by the sleeve and extending inwardly thereof into the spiral groove of the spindle and extending outwardly through the slot in the shield-piece, a spring-pressed lever pivoted to the handle and having a slot through which the said pin passes;

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

MORRIS L. CECIL. 

